En İyi Hikâye Akademi Ödülü

En İyi Hikâye Akademi Ödülü, Akademi Ödülleri'nin başlangıcından 1957 yılına kadar Akademi Ödülü'ne layık görülerek, En İyi Özgün Senaryo için Akademi Ödülü lehine kaldırıldı.

Kazanan ve Adaylar
1930'lar
1930/1931: The Dawn Patrol – John Monk Saunders
Doorway to Hell – Rowland Brown
Laughter – Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart
The Public Enemy – John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
Smart Money – Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
1931/1932: The Champ – Frances Marion
Lady and Gent – Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
The Star Witness – Lucien Hubbard
What Price Hollywood? – Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin
1932/1933: One Way Passage – Robert Lord
The Prizefighter and the Lady – Frances Marion
Rasputin and the Empress – Charles MacArthur
1934: Manhattan Melodrama – Arthur Caesar
Hide-Out – Mauri Grashin
The Richest Girl in the World – Norman Krasna
1935: The Scoundrel – Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Broadway Melody of 1936 – Moss Hart
The Gay Deception – Stephen Morehouse Avery, Don Hartman
Write in Candidate: G Men – Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck)
1936: The Story of Louis Pasteur – Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
Fury – Norman Krasna
The Great Ziegfeld – William McGuire
San Francisco – Robert Hopkins
Three Smart Girls – Adele Comandini
1937: A Star Is Born – Robert Carson, William Wellman Play media A Star Is Born
Black Legion – Robert Lord
In Old Chicago – Niven Busch
The Life of Emile Zola – Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
One Hundred Men and a Girl – Hans Kraly
1938: Boys Town – Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
Alexander's Ragtime Band – Irving Berlin
Angels with Dirty Faces – Rowland Brown
Blockade – John Howard Lawson
Mad About Music – Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
Test Pilot – Frank Wead
1939: Mr. S1mith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster
Bachelor Mother -Felix Jackson
Love Affair – Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel
Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti

1940'lar
1940: Arise, My Love – Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy
Comrade X – Walter Reisch
Edison, the Man – Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
My Favorite Wife – Leo McCarey, Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack
The Westerner – Stuart N. Lake
1941: Here Comes Mr. Jordan – Harry Segall
Ball of Fire – Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
The Lady Eve – Monckton Hoffe
Meet John Doe – Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
Night Train to Munich – Gordon Wellesley
1942: 49th Parallel (The Invaders) – Emeric Pressburger
Holiday Inn – Irving Berlin
The Pride of the Yankees – Paul Gallico
The Talk of the Town – Sidney Harmon
Yankee Doodle Dandy – Robert Buckner
1943: The Human Comedy – William Saroyan
Action in the North Atlantic – Guy Gilpatric
Destination Tokyo – Steve Fisher
The More the Merrier – Frank Ross, Robert Russell
Shadow of a Doubt – Gordon McDonell
1944: Yolumda Giderken – Leo McCarey
A Guy Named Joe – David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
Lifeboat – John Steinbeck
None Shall Escape – Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
The Sullivans – Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer
1945: The House on 92nd St. – Charles G. Booth
The Affairs of Susan – László Görög, Thomas Monroe
A Medal for Benny – John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
Objective, Burma! – Alvah Bessie
A Song to Remember – Ernst Marischka
1946: Vacation from Marriage – Clemence Dane
The Dark Mirror – Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers – Jack Patrick
The Stranger – Victor Trivas
To Each His Own – Charles Brackett
1947: Miracle on 34th Street – Valentine Davies
A Cage of Nightingales (French: La Cage aux rossignols) – Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler
It Happened on Fifth Avenue – Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
Kiss of Death – Eleazar Lipsky
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman – Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker
1948: The Search – Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
Louisiana Story – Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty
The Naked City – Malvin Wald
Red River – Borden Chase
The Red Shoes – Emeric Pressburger
1949: The Stratton Story – Douglas Morrow
Come to the Stable – Clare Boothe Luce
It Happens Every Spring – Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
Sands of Iwo Jima – Harry Brown
White Heat – Virginia Kellogg

1950'ler
1950: Panic in the Streets – Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
Bitter Rice – Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
The Gunfighter – William Bowers, André de Toth
Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass
When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg
1951: Seven Days to Noon – James Bernard, Paul Dehn
Bullfighter and the Lady – Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
The Frogmen – Oscar Millard
Here Comes the Groom – Liam O'Brien, Robert Riskin
Teresa – Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth – Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John
My Son John – Leo McCarey
The Narrow Margin – Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
The Pride of St. Louis – Guy Trosper
The Sniper – Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt
1953: Roma Tatili – Dalton Trumbo (ödülü aslında Trumbo için bir arkadaşı olan Ian McLellan Hunter'a verildi. 15 Aralık 1992'de Guvernörler Kurulu, ödülü Trumbo'ya geçmişe dönük olarak onayladılar ve Hunter'ın adı kaldırıldı.)
Above and Beyond – Beirne Lay, Jr.
The Captain's Paradise – Alec Coppel
Hondo – Louis L'Amour
Little Fugitive – Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
1954: Broken Lance – Philip Yordan
Bread, Love and Dreams (Italian: Pane, amore e fantasia) – Ettore Margadonna
Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits) – François Boyer
Night People – Jed Harris, (Tom Reed)
There's No Business Like Show Business – Lamar Trotti (posthumous nomination)
1955: Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs
The Private War of Major Benson – Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray
The Sheep Has Five Legs (French: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) – Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
Strategic Air Command – Beirne Lay, Jr.
1956: The Brave One – Robert Rich (Dalton Trumbo)
The Eddy Duchin Story – Leo Katcher
High Society – Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman (Note: The authors of this Bowery Boys film respectfully withdrew their own names and the nomination. They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 MGM musical of the same name starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra which was based on The Philadelphia Story. This nomination was not included on the final ballot.)
The Proud and the Beautiful (French: Les Orgueilleux) – Jean-Paul Sartre
Umberto D. – Cesare Zavattini